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Category Archives: Near-space Balloon

My project partner Oksana Sal decided to put one of the screencaps from our Near-space Balloon projects through a Google Deep Dream service http://dreamdeeply.com/, and it came up with some seriously bizarre results. Original Photo: Dream Version: Related From Amazon …

To be honest, I’m a little impressed that people are still talking about this. I’m happy that this achievement has not been easily forgotten as quickly as many of the other internet sensations have over the years. I’ve been following …

Here’s a little 3 minute teaser of the HD Footage recovered from the camera we launched in August. Over the course of an hour and a half it rose to over 100,000 feet above sea level (the area known as …

I got a call this morning from a blocked number. I normally don’t even answer these but for some reason I decided to answer it. The call turned out to be from a very kind gentleman near Millbank, who told …

An old colleague of mine suggested another possible reason that the 3G iPhone we put in our capsule may have failed during it’s descent. Apparently, if left out in the sun too long or otherwise overheated, iOS will shut down …

Just finished finalizing our preparations for the balloon launch tomorrow. While we were searching around for last minute information and instructions on how to tie the balloon, we found a guy who received over $2000 as a kickstarter fund to …

Test with the balloon app today revealed that setting the location manager with an distance limit of 300m was not producing accurate altitude information until very late. This could make it very difficult to find the device if we need …